Good afternoon. I would like to welcome everyone to the second of our fiscal year 2022 budget hearings. I am joined by my ranking member, senator braun and senator heinrich. We are delighted to look at witnesses. We have the library of congress, dr. Carla hayden, and a director of the Congressional Budget Office. Thank you for joining us here today to testify. The roles the all play are critical important to making sure congress can serve the American People well. Your agencies help congress in our basic responsibility on behalf of our constituents. Let me think the women and men of your agencies. The past year has been difficult from the pandemic to the genuine six attack january 6 attack. Unanticipated enhancements, ppe, cleaning and security courses. Because the senate and the house continue to meet, the heavy workloads of crs and the cbo have met congressional requests to inform legislative responding to the pandemic. The library has delayed the construction of a needed storage mod
The committee will come to order. Thank you to the comptroller for being here and for your service to the American People this marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of the gao and we are grateful for all the work that you do to ensure the government is working efficiently for all taxpayers. Since its creation the gao has acted as congresses watchdog giving us the independence, nonpartisan analysis we need to ensure federal agencies and programs are working effectively. Gao plays a Critical Role to reveal operations and activities across the federal government from cybersecurity , Healthcare Services for nations veterans forgot the start of every new congress, gao presents the most important findings in the high risk list which will be discussing today. The report examines Government Programs and operations considered to be the most at risk of waste, fraud, abuse and mismanagement and focuses on government functions most in need of reform, this is not only an essential tool for sa
Sen. Murkowski good morning, everyone. The committee will come to order. We are here this morning to examine federal and industry efforts to improve the cybersecurity of the Energy Sector, including efforts to improve collaboration on Cyber Security and Critical Infrastructure protection initiatives. It has been more than a year since we last held a hearing on cybersecurity for the Energy Sector, but i think it is fair to say this is always a timely topic. It is also a critical priority that we cant lose sight of, even as we grapple with covid19, lest it become the source of our next national crisis. There have been a few noteworthy developments since our last year. Earlier this year the president issued an executive order focused on securing our system from both the cyber and physical threats posed by hostile nationstate actors. This is an effort that will be led by the department of energy. Meanwhile, the federal Energy Regulatory commission has published a paper detailing a potentia
Security department, i call myself one of its grandmothers and one of his grandfathers, im not sure is on this call with me and the rest of you children are the successors and its really wonderful today that we are having, i guess hes by phone, weve had a lot of zoom issues, phone conversation with the panel organized by the Wilson Center very own meg king who has our technology and Innovation Program and a number of the rest of you on this phone. The topic is what is critical, involving the security playbook for managing ten and everything in between, while its not as much fun to see you all in some of the online its not as much fun to see you in person and if anyone can make a conversation interesting, interscience technology and information program. Today as i said were joined by the nations chief risk officer, director of the department of Homeland Security cybersecurity and infrastructure, securing agency, leave it to congress to include security twice in your title, chris will ta
At a joint hearing on the coronavirus and the procurement of personal protective equipment and other medical supplies. This rants an hour and a half. Joint hearing will come to order. Let me begin by thanking everyone for joining us today. I hope that my colleagues, our witnesses and viewers are staying healthy and safe. I want to thank chairman pain and Ranking Member king of the Emergency Preparedness response and recovery subcommittee, for coming together with Ranking Member crenshaw and i to hold this hearing. We are here to discuss federal and state efforts to picker critical supplies and response to the coronavirus pandemic. First, i want to acknowledge that the federal Emergency Management agency, fema, who is put in charge of the federal governments response was asked to testify today. While fema is not here today, i understand that and miss straighter gaynor plans to appear before the full Committee Later this month. Im pleased to hear this because it is vital that we Work Tog